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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 427, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.128192
Keywords
Chlorinated paraffin; Green tea; Packaging; Migration
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Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFC1604402]
- Guangxi Key Research and Development Program
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Chlorinated paraffins (CPs) have been found to be present in green tea, with their potential source being the packaging material. There is no significant difference in CP profiles among green tea samples from different regions.
Chlorinated paraffins (CPs) have been found to occur ubiquitously in foodstuff of both animal and plant origin. However, limited information is available on the content of CPs in green tea, one of the most commonly consumed beverages worldwide. Herein, 107 commercial green tea samples originating from 11 provinces of China, were collected to study the occurrence of short-and medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs and MCCPs, respectively). The concentration of SCCPs in all green tea samples ranged from 4.99 to 717 ng/g (mean: 55.7 ng/g), while MCCPs ranged from 2.55 to 543 ng/g (mean: 33.5 ng/g). CP profiles in green tea samples from different provinces exhibited no regional differences. To identify the potential sources of CPs in green tea, 19 tea packaging samples were collected and analyzed, showing that SCCPs and MCCPs existed at much higher con-centrations in the tea packaging material than in the teas. Migration tests indicated that CPs could migrate from packaging into teas during storage, with the migration velocity and efficiency of SCCPs being higher than MCCPs.
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